International audienceThe measure of Marduk was an Old-Babylonian measure of capacity named after the chief deity of Babylon under the reign of Hammurabi. In this paper we study this economic tool that appears mainly as an accounting or administrative process but is not documented archaeologically. We examine its socio-cultural implications, its communities of users, its places of use, and the interaction between power, economy, religion and administration that underlies its use. In this way, we can establish that this measure was not a mere technical instrument, but rather an instrument of power of the Babylonian king and that its rise was concomitant with the expansion of the Babylonian royal power, especially after the fall of Larsa.La m...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
This article examines the epigraphic sources from the late third millennium BC from the city of Ur i...
Based on a concise description of the commercial life of the Old Assyrian merchants and their centre...
International audienceThe measure of Marduk was an Old-Babylonian measure of capacity named after th...
Au premier millénaire, Babylone est la plus grande ville de Mésopotamie, et est surtout considérée, ...
Studying the Army in Babylonia between the 6th and the 4th century BCE consists less of a "war study...
International audienceDuring the 6th century BC, Babylonia was the centre of a network of waterways ...
La Babilonia de Hammurabi, en el siglo xviii a.C., se convirtió en capital territorial y religiosa d...
International audienceThis article presents an analysis of the text Nbn 258, written in Babylon and ...
Belsunu, son of Bel-usursu, known to Xenophon as Belesys, was a provincial administrator but he was ...
This paper discusses several aspects of idolatry in Ancient Mesopotamia,especially in the first mill...
International audienceMathematical knowledge and practices in Ancient Mesopotamia vary according to ...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
Traiter de l'armée en Babylonie du VIe au IVe siècle av. n. è. consiste moins en une étude sur la gu...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
This article examines the epigraphic sources from the late third millennium BC from the city of Ur i...
Based on a concise description of the commercial life of the Old Assyrian merchants and their centre...
International audienceThe measure of Marduk was an Old-Babylonian measure of capacity named after th...
Au premier millénaire, Babylone est la plus grande ville de Mésopotamie, et est surtout considérée, ...
Studying the Army in Babylonia between the 6th and the 4th century BCE consists less of a "war study...
International audienceDuring the 6th century BC, Babylonia was the centre of a network of waterways ...
La Babilonia de Hammurabi, en el siglo xviii a.C., se convirtió en capital territorial y religiosa d...
International audienceThis article presents an analysis of the text Nbn 258, written in Babylon and ...
Belsunu, son of Bel-usursu, known to Xenophon as Belesys, was a provincial administrator but he was ...
This paper discusses several aspects of idolatry in Ancient Mesopotamia,especially in the first mill...
International audienceMathematical knowledge and practices in Ancient Mesopotamia vary according to ...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
Traiter de l'armée en Babylonie du VIe au IVe siècle av. n. è. consiste moins en une étude sur la gu...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
This article examines the epigraphic sources from the late third millennium BC from the city of Ur i...
Based on a concise description of the commercial life of the Old Assyrian merchants and their centre...